The Easter Bunny Is An Issue In Oregon

The video shows an editorial board meeting where the newspaper was interviewing Republican candidates for Senate. One of those candidates, Jo Rae Perkins, was responding to a question over the phone when Callahan noticed something was amiss. "You want to talk about disrespect, I see what you're writing down there," he said, pointing at a reporter at the table. "You just wrote down 'blah blah blah blah blah' for everything that Jo Rae said. Jo Rae is a respectable woman. Why are you not respecting her by writing 'blah blah blah blah blah' on your notepad?"

The moderator tried to get Callahan to "move on" and answer a question about whether climate change is a "myth or a reality." Callahan said "myth." Then, the same reporter, later identified by the newspaper as Nigel Jaquiss, asked him a follow-up: "Where are you on the Easter Bunny?" "What's that?" Callahan said, and the reporter repeated the question. The interview really went downhill from there. "Are these really the questions that I was called here to answer?" Callahan said. "How about you ask a very serious and respectful question instead of asking a little childish question?"

Let us apply the Tiger Beat On The Potomac approach and note right here that Callahan "failed to answer the question" about the Easter Bunny. What is he hiding anyway?

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